PETER LAMB

Posted on 2012-07-09

The show will consist of works in several media all referring to the artist’s studio floor. In the work the studio floor is always the figurative starting point, acting as a ready-made abstract painting with incidental markings made from previous painting attempts.

By photographing the floor and mounting the image onto dibond aluminium it provides an optical double-take that positions the viewer in an impossible space. A further step towards abstraction is taken when Peter starts adding to the photo, either by painting or rubbing the work on the floor to make it pick up debris. Materials such as masking tape that form the figurative aspects of the photo are slowly phased out leaving just traces of recognisable imagery. Once the work is finished, Peter uses the uninhibited imaginative nature of his own children to come up with titles as they have a tendency to see unintended figurative forms in the abstract results. By titling the work with a reference to the figurative element, a journey is made between representation of reality, abstraction and back again, all within the confines of the spatial and thematic aspect of Peter’s studio. In the works in the show this process will be applied to photographs, canvases, large prints and neon.

Opposite – Gold monkey shooting smoke, 2012

Exhibition runs through to July 28th, 2012

Boetzelaer|Nispen
16 Hewett Street
London
EC2A 3NN

www.bn-gallery.com

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DAN GRAHAM – URBANISM

Posted on 2012-07-09

The exhibition Urbanism shows Graham’s photographic works he has executed from the 1960s on, when he first came to New York City and also in nearby New Jersey, showing buildings dating from the early 19th century. These pictures are demonstratively ‘artless’ and focus the viewer’s attention on their content alone. The composition of the pictures plays with the prosaic structures of Minimal Art. Dan Graham demonstrates how these minimalist structures recur in everyday life, but are subsequently charged with social content. The spectrum reaches from mirrored office high-rises to serial housing developments with décor, kitsch and references to history being part of it.Dan Graham takes Conceptual and Minimal Art from its usual context of the white cube and the desert and introduces it as integral part of cities and suburbia, shopping malls and living rooms.

Exhibition runs through to July 28th, 2012

Johnen Galerie
Marienstrasse 10
10117 Berlin
Germany

www.johnengalerie.de

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TOO OLD FOR TOYS, TOO YOUNG FOR BOYS

Posted on 2012-07-02

A group exhibition that examines the way tweens have influenced adults’ viewing habits, featuring Ronnie Bass, Debo Eilers, Jay Heikes, Josh Kline, Barney Kulok, Donald Moffett, and Aura Rosenberg.

Opposite – Donald Moffett, Lot 041212 (cadmium comfort), 2012

Exhibition runs through to September 1st, 2012

OHWOW LA
937 North La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA
90069

oh-wow.com

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EDVARD MUNCH : THE MODERN EYE

Posted on 2012-07-02

This exhibition examines the artist’s work from the 20th century, including sixty paintings, many from the Munch Museum in Oslo, with a rare showing of his work in film and photography.
Munch is often seen as a 19th-century Symbolist painter but this exhibition shows how he engaged with modernity and was inspired by the everyday life outside of his studio such as street scenes and incidents reported in the media – including The House is Burning 1925–7, a sensational view of a real life event with people fleeing the scene of a burning building.
The show also examines how Munch often repeated a single motif over a long period of time in order to re-work it, as can be seen in the different versions of his most celebrated works, such as The Sick Child 1885-1927 and Girls on the Bridge 1902–27.
Munch’s use of prominent foregrounds and strong diagonals reference the technological developments in cinema and photography at the time. Creating the illusion of figures moving towards the spectator, this visual trick can be seen in many of Munch’s most innovative works such as Workers on their Way Home 1913–14. He was also keenly aware of the visual effects brought on by the introduction of electric lighting on theatre stages and used this to create striking effect in works such as The Artist and his Model 1919–21.

Opposite – Die Sonne, 1910

Exhibition runs through to October 14th, 2012

Tate Modern
Bankside
London
SE1 9TG

www.tate.org.uk

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PENCIL AND PAPER

Posted on 2012-07-02

This exhibition features works from Anna Barriball, George Condo, Nadine Fecht, Olivier Gourvil, Anthony McCall, Chris Ofili, Johannes Phokela, Michael Raedecker, Frances Richardson, Perry Roberts, Danny Rolph, Thomas Scheibitz, Michael Stubbs, Marcel van Eeden.
It explores the power, subtlety, humour and ephemerality of the most basic of artistic tools: pencil and paper. It presents a selection of original and rarely-seen works, including two pieces created specifically for this show by Michael Raedecker and Chris Ofili. And it makes the case for these simple media, by demonstrating their limitless potential.
Pencil is often thought of as a tool for preparatory sketches. But some of those preparatory sketches have qualities to which the finished works could never aspire. Johannes Phokela’s exquisite contribution to the exhibition was originally intended a study for a sculpture of Atlas. George Condo’s ‘Don Pepito’ has a lyrical rawness, a swiftness of touch and a casual charm unique to the medium. Thomas Scheibitz’s piece is destined for its place in a full colour rendering of the same motif, but holds its own as an intimate doodle. Olivier Gourvil’s economical line in ‘Exploratrice’ describes an anthropomorphic object.

Opposite – Chris Ofili, Untitled, 2009

Exhibition runs through to August 4th, 2012

Poppy Sebire
All Hallows Hall
6 Copperfield Street
London
SE1 0EP

www.poppysebire.com

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ERWIN WURM – ONE MINUTE SCULPTURES

Posted on 2012-06-25

Since the late 1990s Wurm has been developing One Minute Sculptures, an ongoing series in which we see the artist or his models pose in spontaneous ways with everyday items, inserting pencils in ears, propping chairs on eyes, and bringing a host of inanimate objects to life.
Presented with both a good dose of humour and an underlying cynicism, One Minute Sculptures question the definition of sculpture, and wider issues about our consumer-focused society.
“The fundamental steps consisted in abandoning the idea of durability and infinity. Sculpture could also last for just a few minutes, a few seconds. The works were transported to the level of the immediate present.” Erwin Wurm

Exhibition runs through to September 2nd, 2012

Open Eye Gallery
19 Mann Island
Liverpool Waterfront
Liverpool
L3 1BP

www.openeye.org.uk

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